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Friday, December 12, 2014

Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille dies in Liberia on assignment

Rest in peace: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille died in Thursday. Photo: Julia Ewan/Washington Post
Rest in peace: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille died in Thursday.

A view of the Atlantic Ocean is seen from the roof of a home in the Capitol Hill area of Monrovia, Liberia.Michel du Cille took this photo of Esther Tokpah in September in Monrovia, Liberia. The 11-year-old had lost both her parents to Ebola.
Michel du Cille took this photo of Esther Tokpah in September in Monrovia, Liberia. The 11-year-old had lost both her parents to Ebola. Photo: Michel du Cille/Washington Post
December 12, 2014
Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them, died Thursday while on assignment for The Post in Liberia. He was 58.